Airport Crash Report Astonishing

Re "Vehicle crashes into air terminal" (July 5): I found this article to be among the most astonishing I have read in your newspaper, and not because of the incident described.

I was astonished to learn that Broward Sheriff Ken Jenne, who leads the South Florida Regional Anti-Terrorism Task Force, and whose office presides over airport security, "said he has been asking for the metal posts since 2001," but "airport officials have not acted on the request."

I was astonished to learn that Jenne does not have final authority in this matter, but is relegated to the position of having to ask repeatedly.

I was astonished that your reporter did not seek to question the airport officials who have failed to carry out this request to determine why.

I was astonished that the Broward Sheriff's Office, through its spokesman, Hugh Graf, determined conclusively that "This is not an issue of terrorism," simply because "nothing suspicious was found in the vehicle." Apparently the perpetrator "jumped out of the vehicle and started running along with passengers and airport employees." How can the sheriff's office conclude definitively that this was not simply a terrorism "test run"?